Balanced Reading Quotes

Read much, but not too many books.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I read two books at a time. One that is heavy and one that makes for light reading.